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Summary: Designs such as flowers can be added to glass beads using a mandrel and a thin stringer. See how to create small flowers on a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Teresa Metcalfe-Johnson has loved making jewelry ever since she strung macaroni noodles together in the first grade. When she learned that she could actually make her own beads she...read more
"Alright. Now, we used four dots to make four petal flowers. And, what we're going to do now is a thinner stringer. Which, is actually about a millimeter thick and we're going to make flowers that consist of three small dots. So, there will be three petal flowers. We're going to use these kind of just to accentuate the bigger flowers and to add a little more fine detail. So, what I'm going to do is kind of just pick some random empty spaces on my bead to put a series of three dots kind of in a triangle formation. And, I'm going to let this white glass cool off so you can see that. So, we've got two sets of three dots on this side and I'm going to do the same thing on this empty space on the other side. And, just like the flowers with the four petals I'm going to melt these dots flush to the surface. And, I'm going to use a dental pick to plunge right in the middle of the petals to draw those flower petals together. And, then you have a flower with three petals."
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